Problem with external USB hard drive

[Andrig T. Miller]

I have a Western Digital "My Book" external USB and Firewire hard drive.  I
have been using it to backup my laptop.  Recently my backup file (gzipped
tar of my home directory) exceeded the 4GB limit of the fat32 file system on
this drive.  So, I proceeded to go ahead and change the file system from
fat32 to ext3.  I was not going to use this with anything else but Linux
anyway, so the better file system sounded good.  So, I used GParted, and
reformatted the drive (I'm using FC6) as an ext3 file system.  It redid the
partition and reformatted the drive successfully with no errors.  I had
unmounted the drive prior to this, as GParted would not let me do this
without doing that first.  Afterwards, I unplugged it, and replugged it into
the USB port, and it came on, just like before, but it wouldn't automount.
I manually mounted the drive to a directory owned by my normal user, and I
am able to read and write to it successfully.  The drive appears to function
properly.

Why won't it automount to /media/My Book anymore?  What causes FC6 to
automount something to begin with?  Does it have to be a fat32 partition for
the automount to work?  Is there something with the disklabel that causes
the automount to work and show it as a drive on the desktop?  I thought it
would work regardless of the file system on it, but I guess not.

Any help in restoring the automount functionality would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.
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